I am writing this paper not to explain the Holocaust but only to explain how I became involved in a lifelong study including the Holocaust, the Jewish people, their history, the formation the State of Israel and the prophecy of the Jewish people that has occurred before our very own eyes.

When I was in high school, I was disappointed that in American history , we never got to WW II. I had relatives that were in that war and my interest in history made me want to know even more about WWII.

After I finished college (pharmacy school ) at MUSC, I was in a book store one day and was not even thinking about WWII, my eyes fell on a big book simply named WWII, It was about 4 ½ inches thick and I bought the book and over the next month I consumed it. I found out, two things that stood out to me. First, I learned that you could not record the history of WWII in a single book, as it was too voluminous . Secondly, I learned a little about the Holocaust. I don’t think I had ever heard about the Holocaust, if I had, it made no impact on me. But for some reason I could not get these atrocities perpetrated on an entire race only because they were Jews, out of my mind.

I began to read every thing I could get my hands on about the Holocaust and then every thing I could find about SS troopers, the Nazi party and the Third Reich. You can not become involved in a study about the Holocaust without being involved in a study about the Jewish people, their history, going back 4000 years. The study must also include the history of the Jewish people in the land of Palestine, the dispersal of the Jews all over the world in AD 70. This study can not end without studying and realizing the many things that had to come together for the formation of the State of Israel, the many battles they were in and of course the prophecy that has taken place before our very eyes.

As I have said , this has been a life long study and has lead me to having a library of thousands of books, tapes, videos, cds and DVDs. This information also came from the many hours of study in the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC , the Holocaust museum in Miami, the Yad vashem the Holocaust museum in Israel, as well as many other museums and libraries.

In 1990 the Iron Curtain fell and gave hundreds of thousands of Jews in the former Russian block countries as well as Russia a chance to immigrate to Israel. There was only one hurdle , they did not have the money as Russia and the Russian block countries had kept the Jewish people in their community villages to the point that they were very destitute and poor. Hundreds of thousand of Jews have been able to, make what they call their “alilah” (going up in Hebrew) because of a few organizations such as the International Fellowships of Christians and Jews which raised, for this purpose, more than $70 million dollars last year alone. The Fellowship is about 85% Christian and about 15% Jews. This is a guess on my part based on what I have heard from others.

There were only about 650,000 Jews in the State of Israel when it was formed in May of 1948. Harry Truman was first to send the new country a telegram welcoming them to the League of Nations. Israel won its first war against many odds against their Arab neighbors which became their War of Independence. Today (2008) the population of Israel is prox 7.2 million with 20% being Arabs.

In 1992, I had just read: “22This is what the Sovereign Lord says see, I will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders,” (Isaiah 49:22) when only a week later I saw a program on TV which was called On Wings of Eagles sponsored by The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. It was about Christians, in other words, Gentiles, if you will, giving to help destitute Jews in the former Russian block countries to migrate to Israel. I could not believe my eyes. I had ask the Lord many times why he had kept my mind on the study of His Chosen People, which included some 4000 years to the present, most all of my adult life. In the program they had a number of Christians ministers who were endorsing this program founded by a Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. I tried every way I could to shoot down this program, I even called Dr Pat Robertson and Dr John Hagee both of whom had endorsed the program and had asked their Christian supporters to support Rabbi Eckstein in his endeavor to help the Jews of the “North” to migrate to Israel and both of them told me that their ministries had added On Wings of Eagles to their budgets. I even called the Better Business Bureau to find out what I could about The International Fellowship of Christian and Jews in Chicago but found out nothing bad as I had expected. I did not want to believe what my heart was telling me. I called the IFCJ, which is their acronym, They answered every question I had for them. I found out that every nickel someone gives for this worthy cause goes to help a Jew to get to Israel. Dr John Hagee told me they were having a conference in Washington, DC in a few months, that I might want to go and I could really find out something about these people. I did go to the 3 day conference and was very impressed.

While I do not claim that the Lord has ever spoken to me, on the plane, coming back home it seemed as if the Lord told me that I now knew the reason He had led me to a life long study of the His Chosen People.

I quit counting at about 500, I do not know how many talks I have made about the Holocaust, Jewish History etc, at high schools, colleges, churches, civic organizations etc. This all started in 1968 when I would be invited to jr highs and high school to talk on drugs abuse, I had bought my first drug store at the age of 26 in 1967 and as a pharmacist I was very pleased to do this, however I was not a very good speaker but I did not know what God had in store for me. I had made over 400 talks when I started sending younger pharmacist that worked for me to make these talks on the dangers of the misuse of drugs. In 1993 my topic change to the Holocaust etc. You know the saying, those who forget to remember history are doomed to repeat it. It is amazing how many high school senior history classes or even freshmen or sophomore college history classes could not tell me what Auschwitz meant to them.

I love the resilient and remarkable Jewish people. I also love the State of Israel, I have gone there about every other year since 1995. When I am in Israel I do not think of being on a vacation but it is more like being on a spiritual sabbatical. As long as I live and am able I will always be involved in and support this worthy Godly command to gentiles. I recently spoke to a Sunday School class of elderly men at a neighboring church and a gentleman interrupted me and said, “ Why don’t these rich Jews pay to get them out of Russia?” Without even thinking I said, “It is not their calling, it is ours.” Then I read Isaiah 49:22 again.

                                                                                   Frank Duncan